As I have mentioned a number of times… I never really know where an inspiration for a LEARNING MOMENTS podcast may come from. But this month, I hope you can tell Homework-FOREVER was driven by the students in every one of my college classes!

 This month’s Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS podcast is all about progressively dealing with Unhealthy Professional Competition. As the title suggests, motivation and encouragement brought on by competition in the workplace may bri...

This month’s Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS podcast is driven by the proclamation: “You can change jobs during your career… but you can’t change what makes you SPECIAL!”Innovation and entrepreneurship in the public sector have al...

 As we all consider options and opportunities for moving ourselves forward both personally and professionally… does Positioning for Innovation, rank high on your strategy list? Well this month’s Inspiring Innovations, LEARNING ...

The major goal of this month’s Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS podcast is to more creatively and purposefully harness the potential of Cooperative Diversity! Too often, as we work with people… we overlook the LEADERSHIP… INNO...

As we begin our Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS line-up of podcast topics for the new year… I thought I would begin with an issue that has “flustered” me for a long time. Specifically I am referring to those who in my career have claimed...

Well as we finish 2024, this Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS podcast is a targeted message toward bettering Board/Council/Committee advancement. Often as professionals are recruited and join a community development group, it becomes “gro...

This month’s podcast: Who Owns The BIG Picture? … is almost a strong personnel policy directive! Too often in many businesses or organizations employees within them seem to be “once removed” from owning and standardly sharing a common message a...

This month’s Inspiring Innovations, LEARNING MOMENTS September 2024 podcast is important/special to me in so many ways! First, I have always believed and preached that everyone that I worked with should be confident and prepared to make a good ...

This month’s Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS Podcast was a “long-time-in-the-making”! No, I don’t mean it took me a long time to record it… rather it took me a while to organize the message in a calm… but strong way. And because I have p...

Too often traditional… “We have always done it this way” operational practices stand in the way of progressive process upgrades in the workplace. You know what I mean. The “if it’s not broken… why do we need to fix or change anything” leadershi...

At no time in my career did anyone set me down nor did I participate in a special workshop/training on facilitating QUALITY NEGOTIATION. Do you pick up tips and strategies as you go through your workdays and participate in multiple topic negoti...

As you can tell by this month’s Inspiring Innovations, LEARNING MOMENTS topic… Entrepreneurship and Innovation continue to dominate my current professional responsibilities. So to support this special momentum.... I have taken a “vi...

Sometimes advancing professional development pushes you to go back to the basics. This month’s podcast Meeting Preparation… is all about that journey. Whether it is appropriately AGENDA SHARING   in our transparent times… or st...

The Cambridge English Dictionary defines Global Citizenship as follows: “The idea that you should show loyalty and support for the world as a whole as much as for the particular country in which you live.” Whether it’s t...

This month’s Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS podcast topic: “As Much Advice As Possible”… seems to carry a common sense, natural decision-making recommendation action. However, if people take a quick assessment of the steps they t...

This December 2023 Podcast completes our 7th season of Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS. Each month I have had the GREAT opportunity to share my thoughts, ideas, and recommendations on positively and progressively living through a variety...

What do Tom Brady… RAM Pick-ups… and Gerber Baby Foods have in common? A GREAT BRAND! This month’s Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS podcast follows the tradition of coming to you from my favorite deer hunting blind. But don’t ...

Appropriate NETWORKING in and around your employment sector has always been an important action for hiring and promotion purposes. Who you meet, where you go, and what type of relationship-building you accomplish has traditionally been the stan...

Learning valuable lessons from the “Not Right” decisions or actions taken by co-workers, supervisors, and/or leaders… is often not placed in a professional development context… but it should be! This month’s Inspiring Innovations LE...

Have you ever considered the short and long-term value of "Take Aways" from training sessions, personnel meetings, performance reviews and/or person-to-person agency status discussions? Could you pass a "Take Aways" Test on any of these profess...

Talking about the negatives of developing and sustaining a progressive workplace culture… sometimes just needs to be discussed. So this month’s Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS podcast is all about those who do the Robotics Minimum and th...

This month’s Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS podcast takes on a more serious special topic area: Managing Life & Work Expectations. I believe it is important and necessary to periodically review your Expectations in these areas and c...

This month’s Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS podcast borrows from the movie Field of Dreams with its style of messaging: “Build It & He Will Come” to introduce a valuable innovation start-up strategy.  Show Them &...

This month’s Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS podcast gives my Mother a special voice in providing a unique professional growth message. The “setting” for the MOMENT is classic… and the LEARNING is simple but too often overlooked.